All These Roadworks: The stories of Tori Hamlin have been appearing in the All These Roadworks store for nearly nine months now, and the response by readers has been phenomenal – you’re voting with your dollars, and it seems you just can’t get enough of these books!
As readers may be aware, while most of these books are stand-alone tales of erotic transformation, many of them nevertheless occur in the same universes. One such universe is the world of DomCo – so I’ve invited Tori to talk a little about the DomCo universe, which books fit into it, and some of the shared elements between these stories.
Not all the DomCo books are available yet at AllTheseRoadworks.com – but I’m working with Tori to bring the rest to the store over coming months, notably with the release of Love, Lust and Erin on Friday 7 June. I’ve included links to the ATR store where relevant – and you can view all Tori Hamlin books in the store by clicking here (link) – but you can find the remaining books at Erotikinks.com.
With that said, I’ll turn you over to Tori Hamlin.
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Tori Hamlin: I’d like to first extend my heartfelt thanks to All These Roadworks for the opportunity put this post up. He’s been a huge supporter and an inspiration for my writing. Second, thank you to everyone who has supported my writing with book orders, messages, follows, and taking part in discussions. Over the years, I’ve burned through the first few paragraphs of a ton of erotic stories, but so few of them have ever really hooked me like ATR stories do. There really is nothing else like them out there. The style and the creativity that All These Roadworks puts into his work is an absolute treasure in the erotica community.
It wasn’t until I came across the first chapter of Titcage (link), maybe eight years ago, that I finally found one writer that a style and content that I really connected with. So, thanks again to ATR for doing what he does. In my mind, he’ll always be the undisputed king of this niche, and I’m sincerely grateful to be featured here.
So, the DomCo books. In 2014, I started mulling over this idea for a taboo story with all the kinks I liked, with a style combining character, emotion, and utterly dirty prose. Over my years of reading erotic fiction, I never really found exactly what I was looking for. If I was going to get it, I decided, I’d just have to write it myself.
I didn’t actually put the first word of it down until the spring of 2015. By then, the idea for that story had started to form a web of connected bits that were far too large for a single book. I didn’t have the entirety of it back then, but a vague idea of where I wanted it to go. I’ve always loved stories of change. How does a person go from one thing to another? How do they start as innocent or naive, and become completely corrupted? What would it be like if it happened to an entire world?
At the time I began writing The Second Place Sister (link), I had three central characters in mind. Stephanie, Tori, and Kayla. The DomCo entity was some shadowy idea, which actually crystallized into what it is today as I was following the release of the Titcage chapters. So, in some ways, DomCo owes its existence to Titcage.
The story of the Hamlin Twins was my first attempt at a novel. While I’d written a number of short things that I never shared, I never imagined that I would write a novel, let alone an erotic novel that so many people enjoyed. In a month, I wrote a massive 180,000-word manuscript. I had to trim it down, and then I put it up just to see what people would think. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect the kind of reaction it got.
Life sort of happened around the same time. I got divorced, went through job changes, and all of that. The DomCo world still sat in the back of my mind for all that time, though. It wasn’t until 2019 that I started putting together the second part of the series, Korrupting Kayla. It wouldn’t be until 2022 that I finally got serious about it and couldn’t let the series languish any longer. Putting all those pieces together became a personal challenge, and so, the series has taken on a life of its own and I’m so happy that so many people are enjoying it with me.
So, how does this whole thing fit together and where is it going? I was asked to give an overview of the universe, the books, and how they intertwine. Let’s start at the beginning.
This chapter in the timeline introduces The NewYou Clinic, as well as some key characters that will have continuing importance to the greater story. In this book, it alludes to a greater entity behind the activities of NewYou and its goals. The clinic is one arm of DomCo, essentially a research facility that specializes in creating and refining brainwashing methods, as well as producing sex slaves for DomCo’s wealthy clientele. This chapter also introduces the Recoder technology, Dr. Swell’s most insidious invention.
Tori has only the briefest glimpse of these methods during her time in the clinic. The story sets the stage for Stephanie and Tori’s upcoming battle against the DomCo corporation.
Behind the scenes of the everyday activities at DomCo, Korrupting Kayla showcases both the significant brainwashing techniques that DomCo’s employees go through, as well as the tempting benefits they receive for adhering to and pushing the company’s goals.
Kayla, at first reluctant, begins to slowly accept her new personality and the things DomCo forces her to do. The work Kayla becomes involved in, both in the first two books and the third one to come, shows just how far DomCo’s reach extends.
The company has its hands in social media, legislative lobbying, entertainment, the world food supply, and much more. Kayla and Tiffany will play a crucial role in the infiltration of the corporation.
For those reading all of the stories, you’ll notice that Kayla, Stephanie Hamlin, and Tori all attend the same school.
The seductive adventure of Erin, Casey, and Dave is the Timeline’s introduction to the Halo Technologies subsidiary of DomCo. Haloes are a key piece of technology, something that will spread across the world to eventually replace the smartphone. Of course, the technology is controlled by DomCo.
In this chapter, we also hear about the big legislative push by DomCo to introduce the “Male Rights Bill,” a twisted bit of legislation aimed at curbing and, in some cases, eliminating the penalties for sexual crimes. By flooding the mainstream with sexual deviance, the moral fabric of the world has begun to erode.
In The Second Place Sister, there is a small easter egg, wherein John Hamlin has a brief conversation with one of his programmers over the phone. The programmer is named Dave, alluding to the upcoming tie between the Hamlins and the Marrins.
Sasha’s Obsession
This side story was meant to showcase some of the wider DomCo world, wherein we see departments of the company using others to test methods for brainwashing. Mark’s interest in his sister may seem, at first, like a sudden thing, which he’s only admitted to himself and Sasha when his sister’s own dark fantasy is exposed. However, the end of the story holds the key to Mark’s involvement and intentions.
Much like Stephanie Hamlin, Mark harbors his own dark desires. It is sheer good fortune that Sasha is so willing to comply. His sister’s willingness to dive head-first into her obsession allows Mark to immediately put everything into place that he’s been working on for some time.
Through the use of DomCo’s subliminal messaging techniques, combined with her own eagerness to become a sex slave, Sasha is easily transformed into a willing plaything. In the final installment of the story, we see Mark uploading video files of his sister’s defilement to a DomCo server, as well as one of his friend’s getting in touch with someone that he thinks can help rescue her from her fate.
Sasha, as well as other tortured girls, such as Harmony and Valerie, will play a key role in Tori and Stephanie’s plan to fight back.
Angela’s upside-down adventure on The Other Side is both a fun and dirty romp and an important event in the timeline. While John Hamlin pours resources into finding a cure for the Recoder that’s turned his daughter into a full-time fuck machine, Angela encounters a mirror version of DomCo that’s already fallen apart.
Her doppelgänger’s father has cracked the Recoder technology and seems to have found the cure. While Angela is unfamiliar with the Recoder and has only a faint inkling of the name DomCo, she does have the presence of mind to copy this information in the hopes of doing something to help her own father. If she makes it home, that is.
In this chapter we see that Angela and the Hamlins, also, attend the same school as Kayla and Tiffany, all of them having a passing acquaintance with one another.
Tempting Trevor
This introduction to Stacy and Trevor has only the briefest mention of DomCo, but does set the character’s up for the next part of their adventure. During a conversation with Trevor, prior to his seduction, Stacy mentions that she has been participating in a DomCo-sponsored job placement program for college students. The placement program has her working for a lingerie store.
The observant reader may notice that Stacy is just the kind of girl that DomCo likes: Smart, seductive, slutty, and eager for control over others. And she’s begun to corrupt her brother, as well.
The rollout of Halo technology has begun, using a select group of unwilling or reluctant participants. Edge is a social engineering tool cooked up by some of DomCo’s most devious engineers.
Though the players are forced into the game at first, many of them soon become willing game pieces, enslaving themselves for the generous rewards and real-world power that they gain from progressing to higher ranks.
The challenges, merely dirty at the beginning, become ultra-slutty, but then progress toward actions that influence the lives and decisions of wealthy elites, lawmakers and educators. Just like any cesspool of corruption, the most powerful motivators are money, power, and sex.
Jenna and Kara, our reluctant heroines, are also students in the same class as Stephanie, Tori, Angela, Kayla, and Tiffany.
Reluctant Suckslut
Sophie is a conflicted beauty. While she yearns to be strong, independent and respected, she also becomes highly aroused when she is used and treated like a sex object. This has the effect of filling her with self-loathing as she drifts through life, her worldview skewed toward suspicion and mistrust of everyone, men most of all.
Sophie’s first introduction to the name DomCo is the Relief Aid fundraiser, where she earns her title of reluctant suckslut. In the second episode, we see Sophie falling deeper into her feelings of negative self-worth, as she’s used again at her best friend’s wedding. This time, though, she falls into the clutches of Dale, a DomCo employee who gets Sophie to (literally) begin drinking the Kool-Aid.
As these stories continue to catch up to one another, we’ll see Sophie slide further under DomCo’s sway, where she’ll meet some of the other girls that have suffered the same fate.
Vicky is just a normal girl with dreams of making the world a better place for women. Unfortunately, Vicky’s father is the head of a corporate giant whose goal is the total submission of women across the globe.
Vicky’s slide into slutty submission damages her mind, creating an alternate personality to endure the horrible things that DomCo’s brainwashing demands of her. The real Vicky, meanwhile, sits behind a mental wall in safety, waiting for the day she’ll be able to inherit her father’s wealth.
One of fourteen daughters born to the sadistic sire of the world’s third-largest corporate entity, Vicky is the only one that took on the task of trying to win her father’s approval. Twelve of them denied him, one is still a mystery.
The second installment of Korrupting Kayla essentially picks up where Edge and Vicky’s Inheritance left off. A little time has passed, and Kayla is now beginning to understand that the company is taking over everything. Only halfway through this book does she actually find out what her real role will be.
All the brainwashing, abuse, and humiliation have left Kayla not quite right in the head. When she’s given a taste of power, she takes hold of it readily. For someone like Kayla, who has been powerless all her life, having some means of control is like giving an arsonist a lit match. They’re going to start burning down the world.
What’s coming?
The DomCo series is set to wrap up in late 2023/early 2024. The final installment of Korrupting Kayla will set the stage for the final DomCo novel (or novels). All of these will be pretty large stories. In Kayla Three, we’ll see the other lost daughters brought to heel. Collectively, they form what is known as The Traitor’s Council.
Opposite these maniacal misogynists are Tori and Stephanie Hamlin, along with the other central characters from the first part of the series. You can expect that things will be hot, dark, and dirty. Also, they will likely get more than a little weird. That’s the nature of Tori Hamlin tales, however, so thanks for strapping in and taking the ride. I appreciate all of you.